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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

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Madrasa Discourses: A Project for the Renewal of the Rationalistic Tradition of the Madrasa

By Mohammad Ali  //  July 23, 2019

Ever since its inception, the modern madrasa system has been striving to prove its worth and practicality. Though reform has tended to shun the influence of modern (and Western) social and natural sciences, some modernist…

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